The satirical website etruesports.com says a last-minute snag in negotiations over baseball Commissioner Bud Selig's three-year contract extension was avoided "when the stipulation that the commissioner 'be more chipper' was dropped."

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Los Angeles Times, Morning briefing (12/14/07)

Jim Peltz

Etruesports.com, a satiric Web site, took a poke at Bobby Petrino, who last week suddenly resigned as coach of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons - after only 13 games - to become the football coach at Arkansas.

Under a story headlined "I Will Keep Moving Until Housing Crisis Is Over!" the Web site said Petrino, who has coached at other professional and college teams, committed to buy "yet another house, his fifth in the last five years," to help the housing market.

With all the juicy allegations that have come out since Anucha Browne Sanders' $10 million sexual harassment lawsuit went to trial earlier this month, eTrueSports.com is reporting that MSG chairman James Dolan will announce that "The World's Most Famous Arena" will be rechristened "The Joint Where Anything Goes."

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Congrats to local sports parody site eTrueSports.com for its "debut" on YouTube.

Writer Frank Coffey's spoof site eTrueSports.com is now in video on YouTube.

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Los Angeles Times, Morning briefing (9/09/07)

Michigan coach Lloyd Carr has entered a rehab facility to fight a cupcake abuse problem. "I've wolfed down cupcakes for years," Carr said, "scheduled my life around them. But too much of a good thing can turn on you."

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San Antonio Express-News (8/09/07)

LEADING OFF Now here's a Web site motto we can love: "Dedicated To Taking Scraps of Truth And Turning Them Into Absurdist Nonsense."

That's the creed of eTrueSports.com, which reads kind of like "The Daily Show" for sports. (more)

FBLA 20 Questions: Frank Coffey

Journo/TV-film writer/novelist Frank Coffey used to just read blogs. Now he writes one. Coffey's Venice-based parody sports website, eTrueSports.com, is "committed to taking scraps of truth and turning them into absurdist nonsense."

With all the gushing about David Beckham and his wife coming to town, it's nice to see the Venice-based eTrueSports — "Dedicated to taking scraps of truth and turning them into absurdist nonsense" — adding some punctuation to the coverage:

David Beckham, worried about LA traffic, has made a tender offer for the Pacific Coast Highway with the intention of taking the road private. "It will be like a big driveway," explained wife Posh Spice.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

By MICHAEL O'KEEFFE
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Mrs. Rocket says don't look at me

Don't blame Roger Clemens' wife for his fatigued groin: "Definitely isn't my fault," Debbie Clemens told friends at an East Side bistro. "Last week he said he had a headache. I'm sick of his excuses."

Memo to Clemens' libel attorney: Please don't sue us! It's just a joke! It's just an item from the new eTrueSports.com, The Onion-meets Deadspin Web site!

Sports fans, Coffey adds, need something to laugh about. "I love The Onion," Coffey says, "but it betrays its print background. The stories sometimes stay on their site for three weeks at a time. I thought there was a niche for something that moved quicker. If they are a battleship, we're a PT boat."

This just in: Tiger Woods actually expressed a real opinion. Barry Bonds, meanwhile, declined a seven-figure endorsement deal from Goodyear to put its name on the side of his head. "Blimp them," Barry said good-naturedly.

SITE REDESIGN IN PROGRESS: NEW STORIES CAN BE FOUND AT etruesports.net

Following Jerry Jones' comment that it was "absurd" to link football with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (C.T.E.) disease The Flat Earth Society has withdrawn an invitation to Cowboys owner to address their annual convention. "We can't afford to be embarrassed," said a Flat Earth spokesman.